In Brooklyn, two young women undertook to band together a smile
club. In this club’s membership may be included every one,
everywhere, who is willing to pledge as many smiles as possible
to make life generally happier. Here are some of the things
required of members: “Radiate! Smile! Shine like a little sun!
Begin each day anew, and begin it by smiling until you are in a
good humor. Think only of the things you wish to possess or of
what you desire to become, for thoughts are things. Have faith
and your wishes will come true. Smile! And keep on smiling, and
you will find that the happiness you have always been seeking is
within yourself. Express this happiness.” Surely no objection
can be offered to the organizing of clubs of this sort, tho
we need not necessarily join one to acquire and practise the
smiling habit. It may be said of smile clubs and smiles, the
more the merrier. As a popular post-card puts it: “Smile a
while, and while you smile another smiles, and soon there are
miles and miles of smiles because you smile.” Grouches could not
exist if every one was smiling. It’s worth trying for a few days
anyhow, just to see how well it works.
(2983)
=Snob versus Gentleman=--See GENTILITY, FALSE STANDARD OF.